LARUS-XEMA. 
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Family LARIDiE. 
Genus LARUS, Linnaeus. 
LARUS PACTFICUS, Latham. 
Pacfic Gull. 
Gould, Ilandhk. Puls. Aust. Yol. ii., sp. 590, p. 385. 
Tins bird ranges over the eastern and southern shores of 
Australia, but is found more plentifully on the islands of Bass’s 
Straits and Tasmania, where it breeds in colonies on the low islands 
adjacent to the mainland, depositing its eggs three in number, 
upon the ledges of the rocks or on shingly beaches. Two eggs 
taken by the late Mr. S. White of the Reed Beds near Adelaide, 
are of a light olive, spotted and blotched all over with umber- and 
blackish-brown, a few nearly obsolete markings appearing as if- 
beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 2'82 x 1'89 inches ; 
(B) 2 - S5 x 2 inches. 
A set taken on the Tasmanian coast in November 1882, are of 
a darker olive, and have the markings larger and more thickly 
disposed. Length (A) 2'87 x 1-9S inches; (B) 2-84 x 1 -95 inches; 
(C) 2'9 x 1-93 inches. 
The months of October, November, and December constitute 
the breeding season of this species. 
Hah. Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, the Coasts of New 
South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 
South-west Australia. (Ramsay.) 
Genus XEMA, Leach. 
XEMA NO V7E-110LLAN DIVE, Stephens. 
Jameson’s Gull. 
Goidd, Ilandhk. lids. Aust., Yol. ii., sp. 597, p. 387. 
This Gull is found all over the eastern and southern portions 
of Australia, also on the islands of Bass’s Straits and Tasmania, It 
